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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Do You Believe The Clinton's?

Clintons Said They Never Used Haiti Money for Chelsea’s Wedding, Then WikiLeaks Showed Up

BY BENJAMIN ARIE
JANUARY 20, 2018 AT 11:43AM

The fiasco over Donald Trump’s alleged “s**thole” comments about places like Haiti had some unexpected side effects.

For one, the American people witnessed just how desperate outlets like CNN are to sanctimoniously attack the president based on rumors and hearsay.

At the same time, the ruckus cast a spotlight on just how bad Haiti is, and reminded people about a scandal that implicates the Clinton’s in exploiting the island for their own personal gain.

When a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the supposedly non-profit Clinton Foundation jumped at the chance to step in — and had no problem accepting millions of dollars of people’s money to do it.

There’s one big problem: Critics allege that much of the money never actually ended up helping the Haitian people… but it may have helped Chelsea Clinton.

After the now famous email leak from within the Democrat party, several back-and-forth messages were revealed which raise serious questions about how Clinton Foundation funds — including, no doubt, money earmarked for Haiti — was actually used.

The biggest question is whether Foundation resources helped pay for Chelsea Clinton’s lavish wedding, which also took place in 2010.

Former President Bill Clinton was so intent on dispelling that claim that he used Twitter to deny it… but came across as a bit over-eager.

“No Clinton Foundation funds—dedicated to Haiti or otherwise—were used to pay for Chelsea’s wedding,” the 42nd president declared on Twitter. “It’s not only untrue, it’s a personal insult to me, to Hillary, and to Chelsea and Marc.”

Do you believe the Clinton Foundation is corrupt?

Yes, an adulterer who was impeached by Congress is “personally insulted.” Remember, this is a person who is a known, proven liar, and was censured for perjury. His lying under oath resulted in him being disbarred from ever practicing law. But just trust him on this one.

The truth has a way of coming out. Not content to let an infamous liar spin more yarns, WikiLeaks hit Bill Clinton with a dose of reality, and backed it up with proof.

“Bill Clinton claims that no Clinton Foundation ‘funds’ were used to pay for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding,” the watchdog group responded on Twitter. “However, the leaked email from then top Bill Clinton aide Doug Band doesn’t say ‘funds’ it says ‘resources.'”

WikiLeaks

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Bill Clinton claims that no Clinton Foundation "funds" were used to pay for Chelsea Clinton's wedding. However, the leaked email from then top Bill Clinton aide Doug Band doesn't say "funds" it says "resources": https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/795284806510714881 … https://twitter.com/BillClinton/status/952271892756553728 …

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Resources. Funds. It looks like Clinton might have been trying to pull another one of his Slick Willie maneuvers. You can just imagine him slyly testifying in his strained voice: “That depends on what your definition of the word ‘funds’ is. I did not inhale.”

WikiLeaks then linked to the smoking gun: A leaked email from 2012, showing a concerned conversation between various Clinton insiders, including John Podesta and Doug Band.

“I just received a call from a close friend of wjcs [William J. Clinton’s] who said that cvc [Chelsea V. Clinton] told one of the bush 43 kids that she is conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from cgi to the foundation,” a worried Doug Band wrote.

“Not smart,” he cautioned.

In a follow-up email within the same thread, the Clinton insider dropped a bombshell.

Plain as day, it looks very much like Clinton allies were openly alarmed that the use of Clinton Foundation “resources” would be uncovered, and were cautioning Chelsea and others to stop before they were found out.

We don’t know the full scale of this situation, or exactly how all of the Foundation funds were used. What we doknow is that the Clinton’s have a frustrating history of corruption and scandals… and Bill Clinton’s word is worth about as much as a fading “I’m With Her” bumper sticker.

If Clinton Foundation “resources” were used in any way to cover Chelsea’s “rich one percenter” wedding, it means that funds which could have gone to help Haiti were instead used on a president’s spoiled daughter.

Whether or not the money was specifically marked for Haiti is irrelevant; using resources from a non-profit group to cover personal luxuries while thousands of Haitians were dying of disease and starvation is simply wrong.

If this email means what it appears to say, then the media should be far less outraged about a rude word Trump said, and a lot more angry that one of the most powerful families in liberal politics raided Haiti like a broken piggy bank.

H/T Truth and Action

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Is There Truth In What Trump Said?

Whether President Donald Trump did or did not use an expletive term to describe certain Third-World nations like Haiti, El Salvador and some African countries, the controversy that erupted over the claims that Trump called them "s**tholes" demonstrates the chasm between the elites and average Americans is so wide you can't see one side from the other.

A rational observer can look at the conditions in those countries and realize something is wrong. When countries see overwhelming portions of its population living in squalor, without basic sanitation and no supply chain to from which to acquire basic necessities, it is not unreasonable to describe those countries in less than glowing terms. This is especially true if the countries have been in this condition for most — if not all — of their histories.

Unfortunately, there is little inquiry into why those countries are in the condition they're in and why there's little hope for improvement. And it's that lack of hope for improvement at home — along with encouragement from the globalists — that incentivizes them to lash together pieces of scrap to build boats to cross oceans or travel thousands of miles on foot or attempt to game the U.S. immigration system or pay their life savings in bribes or sell their bodies to come to America.

The U.S. government and its symbiotic partners the multinational corporations and the World Bank have exploited those countries for their resources for years. In his two books, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, And How to Change The World, former economic hit man John Perkins provides great detail of his experiences in the dark, shadowy world that combines the machinations of the Deep State with corporatocracy in the name of plunder and globalism.

Perkins tells how American industry goes to Third World countries to pillage their natural resources. EHMs like Perkins provide inflated economic forecasts touting the benefits of improving infrastructure and convince the political leaders — through bribery (with money, drugs and prostitutes) or extortion — to commit to vast projects they can't possibly afford. Those countries borrow U.S. taxpayer dollars provided through the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or USAID to pay for the projects that are constructed by U.S. companies. It's all done with a wink and a nod by the U.S. government because, once those countries become wholly indebted to the United States, they become U.S. puppet states and part of the American empire.

The companies that get these projects are a who's who of the globalist cabal: Bechtel; Kellogg Brown and Root; Carlyle Group; and most of Big Oil. And the main players are people you'd recognize as running or influencing American foreign policy for both major American political parties: Bush, Baker, Rumsfeld, Weinberger, Rockefeller, McNamara, Kissinger, Helms and Cheney; and more recently the Clintons and their money-laundering foundation.

Yet there's more than just rampant exploitation and corrupt governments involved. South African émigré and prolific libertarian author Ilana Mercer asks, "What makes a country, the place or the people? Does 'the country' create the man or does the man make the country?"

She writes:

To listen to the deformed logic of the president's detractors, it's the former: the "country" makes the person. No sooner does an African or Haitian immigrant wash up on American shores — courtesy of random quotas, lotteries and other government grants of privilege and protection — than the process of cultural and philosophical osmosis begins. American probity and productivity soon become his own.

But this is not true. History demonstrates that genuine freedom cannot be invented whole cloth nor imposed among any people who have no organic tradition of it. Responsible self-government is not a prize or a trinket that can be taken up merely by a change of scenery. When unrestrained masses who have never known freedom and who believe in mindless superstitions like witchcraft and voodoo are set loose on the land and on the people, there is an unwholesome clash of cultures.

More from Mercer:

Western cultures emphasize the future; view work as a blessing rather than as a burden; promote individuals based on their merit; value education and frugality, are philanthropic, identify with universal causes, and have higher ethics.
In static cultures, individuals tend to be fatalistic rather than future-oriented; live for the present or past; work only because they need to; diminish or dismiss the value of education, frugality, and philanthropy; are often mired in nepotism and corruption; and promote individuals based on clan and connections, rather than capabilities.
"I am because we are" is how one wag encapsulated the cog-like role of the individual in African culture. In advanced cultures, on the other hand, the individual, and not the collective, is paramount...
Magic wins out over reason; community over individual; communal ownership over private property; force and coercion over rights and responsibilities; wealth distribution over its accumulation.

Like Trump, Americans know in their hearts that people from those countries — as well as other Third World and/or Muslim nations — are not ideal candidates for assimilation into American culture. Not because their skin is brown, but because their collectivist mindset and superstitious and/or religious belief set is anathema to individual liberty.

Those individuals have no grasp of democratic values or individual liberty because they've never experienced it... never even conceived it.

Mercer again:

Be it Africa or Arabia, the Left labors under the romantic delusion that the effects of millennia of development-resistant, self-defeating, fatalistic, atavistic, superstition-infused, unfathomably cruel cultures can be cured by an infusion of foreign aid, by the removal of tyrants such as Robert Mugabe or Jacob Zuma, or by bringing the underdeveloped world to America. (Left-libertarian Katherine Mangu-Ward actually told Tucker Carlson that, "If we had a billion people in America, America would be unstoppable. That would be amazing.")
Alas, bad leaders are not what shackle backward peoples. Not exclusively, at least. And Africa's plight is most certainly not the West's fault [I would insert here, not wholly the West's fault – BL]. Rather, Africa is a culmination of the failure of the people to develop the attitudes and institutions favorable to peace and progress.

Another part of the answer is to be found in the fact that the two-party system has been compromised and subverted. Both the Republican "big tent" strategy and the Democratic "diversity" appeal are actually the same.

Recognizing that America's virtually unchecked immigration policies are destroying America's values and economy, Trump has taken a stand against it. It has earned him a number of epithets including racist, Nazi, anti-Semite, fascist and xenophobe. What about the fact that most Americans polled state that they want a check on immigration? Does that make them racist, Nazi, anti-Semitic, xenophobic fascists, too? Are people everywhere who oppose rampant, destructive immigration and who use their vote to check it to be deemed worthy of "denazification"? That sounds rather anti-democratic to me.

The goal of the elites is to eliminate borders, as I reported in The NWO and its open border gambit and Immigration has become the seminal issue of our time, and to accomplish this it intends to swarm all nations with people of other races, from other cultures, nationalities and even religions, so that people of civilized and established nations lose their cultural and nationalist identities and become homogenized. The argument can then be made that, since a nation now has no cultural or racial identity, borders are irrelevant.

In a world without borders, people become world citizens. World citizens need world government.

The propaganda power of ideological labels should be exposed for what it is; namely, a conspiratorial campaign to undermine American sovereignty and independence for "democracy."

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter™

#Release The Memo

GAME CHANGER: FISA Memo To END Mueller’s Russia Investigation Into Trump, Sources Say

“I believe there are people who will go to jail. You don’t get to try to undermine our country, undermine our elections, and then simply get fired.”

ByRYAN SAAVEDRA

January 19, 2018

Republican lawmakers ignited a firestorm late on Thursday after they received a classified memo that documented extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse that officials described as “explosive” and “absolutely shocking.”

Sources who viewed the FISA memo told journalist Sara A. Carter that “they would not be surprised if it leads to the end of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation into President Trump and his associates.” The sources predicted that it most likely will lead to senior-level government officials at the FBI and DOJ being removed from their positions.

A senior government official who viewed the document and could only speak on the condition of anonymity, since the document is classified, told Carter:

The document shows a troubling course of conduct and we need to make the document available, so the public can see it. Once the public sees it, we can hold the people involved accountable in a number of ways … some of these people should no longer be in the government.

Another official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that they will “get this stuff released by the end of the month.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who viewed the FISA memo, told Fox News that he thinks government officials are headed to prison based on the information contained in the document.

“I think that this will not end just with firings,” Gaetz said. “I believe there are people who will go to jail. You don’t get to try to undermine our country, undermine our elections, and then simply get fired.”

WATCH:

Multiple Republican lawmakers who saw the FISA memo took to Twitter to sound the alarm about its damning nature and called for it to be immediately released to the public.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) tweeted: “I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was #neverTrump & #alwaysHillary. #releasethememo”

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) tweeted: “I viewed the classified report from House Intel relating to the FBI, FISA abuses, the infamous Russian dossier, and so-called 'Russian collusion.' What I saw is absolutely shocking. This report needs to be released--now. Americans deserve the truth. #ReleaseTheMemo”

Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) tweeted: “I read the classified documents compiled by the House Intelligence Committee. I believe these documents should be released to the public.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tweeted: “The House must immediately make public the memo prepared by the Intelligence Committee regarding the FBI and the Department of Justice...There is no higher priority than the release of this information to preserve our democracy…The facts contained in the Intelligence Committee's memo regarding the @FBI and @TheJusticeDept are jaw-dropping and demand full transparency. The House must make public the #FISAmemo immediately.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz

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The House must immediately make public the memo prepared by the Intelligence Committee regarding the FBI and the Department of Justice...There is no higher priority than the release of this information to preserve our democracy.https://gaetz.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-matt-gaetz-issues-statement-demanding-intelligence-committee …

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Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) tweeted: "The classified report compiled by House Intelligence is deeply troubling and raises serious questions about the upper echelon of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it relates to the so-called collusion investigation...While the report is classified as Top Secret, I believe the select committee should, pursuant to House rules, vote to make the report publicly available as soon as possible. This is a matter of national significance and the American people deserve the truth."

Political insiders that are deeply connected in Washington, D.C. also offered their insights about the FISA memo and what may come from it.

Fox News contributor and former Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka said that the memo is just the tip of the iceberg and will have wide-reaching implications that will impact the 2018 midterm elections.

Gorka tweeted: "My sources tell me tonight that the 'nuclear' memo is just the beginning. By the end of it all, the tapping of candidate @realDonaldTrump’s phone will be the least of the Left’s problems. #ObamaGate "

Investigative journalist Sara A. Carter, who has closely reported on the Trump investigation for months, tweeted: "I was told by a congressional source that “roughly 50 to 60 Congressional members viewed the House Intelligence Committee #FISAabuse report” and many are calling to #ReleaseTheDocuments"

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino fired off several tweets declaring this the "biggest scandal of our generation" that will "make the IRS scandal look like a Leave it to Beaver episode."